. Stop the Flop

When this concept launched
in 2006, as fans, we were powerless,
until we united our voices in a petition to Stop the NBA Flopping .

WE
DID IT! -
Stop
The Flop.net

Stop the Flop! After over 126,000 signatures
to our petition, the league has finally responded!

The
mission of this site was to Stop the Flop in the NBA. And
We Did It!

How did we do this?

First, we sent a petition to NBA Commissioner
David Stern from all of the angry anti-flopping fans out there.
We proposed that flops should be punished with technical fouls,
fines, and suspensions.

Second, we gathered all the flopping YouTube
links and articles as to embarrass NBA floppers. Now, with so
much evidence, they will hopefully change their flopping ways
(Manu, Raja, Kirilenko, Varejao,
The Baron, and many, many more)

FLOP:
'Pronunciation: \'fläp\
Function: verb
Date: circa 2002-2003 (Manu Ginobili's 1 st year in the league)
Definition: to practice fraud or trickery in an NBA game

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As of May 29, 2008, our StopTheFlop ONLINE
PETITION is no longer
accepting signatures.

Thank you to the 126,441 fans
who united behind this cause!

Fines will be imposed for clear cases
of flopping

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com

The NBA announced to its teams this week at its annual
pre-draft camp that fines will be imposed on players starting
next season for clear cases of "flopping," ESPN.com has
learned.

The league office has yet to determine exact fine
amounts for offending flops and how fines might escalate
for repeat offenders, but in-game arena observers and video
reviewers will be instructed to report instances of theatrical
flopping for potential punishment as part of postgame reports
on officiating and other matters.

The league's pledge to
crack down on flopping was conveyed to team representatives
at Tuesday's competition committee meeting in Orlando.
NBA executive vice president of basketball operations Stu
Jackson confirmed the new policy Wednesday night saying: "What
was clearly expressed to the committee is that we would
begin imposing fines next season for the most egregious
type of flops. When players are taking a dive, for lack
of a better term."

Elsa/Getty Images

The Cavs' Anderson Varejao, left,
may be fined next season if his actions are found to
be a clear case of flopping.

Because a precise penalty system has not yet been structured,
it is not yet known whether serial floppers will be subject
to possible suspensions after a certain number of fines for
flopping, as seen with the league's protocol on technical
fouls.

Players who accrue 16 technicals during
the regular season are hit with a one-game suspension when
they get to No. 16 -- the limit is seven technicals during
the playoffs -- and receive one-game suspensions for every
other technical thereafter (No. 18, 20, etc.).

Detroit's Rasheed
Wallace, a player who has 15 technicals this season and
has been suspended in the past for being over the limit for
technicals, gave his opinion of floppers to ESPN after the
Pistons' 106-102 loss to the Boston
Celtics in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals on
Wednesday.

"All that bull(bleep)-ass calls they had out
there. With Mike [Callahan] and Kenny [Mauer] -- you've all
seen that (bleep)," Wallace said. "You saw them calls. The
cats are flopping all over the floor and they're calling
that (bleep). That (bleep) ain't basketball out there. It's
all (bleeping) entertainment. You all should know that (bleep).
It's all (bleeping) entertainment."